"Go Tell the Bishop"

Part Two

by Tony Hearn, M.A.

The following is a dialogue which the author experienced with the spirit of the late Sarita Kenedy East, the founder of the $190 million John G. and Marie Stella Kenedy Foundation of Corpus Christi, Texas.

The dialogue is extraordinary because the late millionairess tells the author to instruct the present directors of the Kenedy Foundation to give away all foundation holdings and accounts in one single charitable act and to dissolve the foundation.

From the spirit world, Mrs. East tells the author to advise the sitting directors of her foundation that they are to dissolve the foundation in one solemn act of penance for the sins of her, her parents, and her grandparents, especially Captain Mifflin Kenedy, who created the patrimony which she incorporated into the foundation she named for her father and mother.

In a grave message, through the author, to the directors of her foundation, the deceased woman instructs directors of her foundation to turn over every penny and all foundation assets in one lump sum gift to the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund, or, she warns, experience, individually and as a group in the eternal spirit realm where she now dwells, the soul-rending remorse which invariably results from the imperfect, human stewardship of material wealth.

In the dialogue with the author, the late Sarita Kenedy East speaks of how she has come to realize now that she is being schooled in the company of the angels that the purpose of life in the material realm is to pass through each moment of every day in the dimension called Time with reverence for all other beings, to embrace personal simplicity, and to practice selfless generosity. This, she counsels, can only be learned through constant communion in prayer with the Living God.

Now, in the spirit realm, this lady experiences, she says during her dialogue with the author, the profoundest regret that she did not learn in her earthly life the lesson of reverence, simplicity, generosity, and spiritual communion with the Living God. What she learned, she says, though she opened herself to the counsel of priests and prelates of the institutional Catholic Church, was how to get, to have, to hold, and to control.

In the dialogue, Sarita Kenedy East warns the directors of her foundation that they, too, will experience grinding remorse if they do not wash their hands of the arbitrary control of great wealth.

In an earlier revelation from the spirit world to the author in 1986, Sarita East instructed the author to tell the Bishop of the Diocese of Corpus Christi to use the Kenedy Foundation resources to help the poorest of the poor. Those resources, she says, have been grossly misused by earlier directors, and, she laments, the foundation which she created in a willful act while on earth now causes her immense suffering in the spirit realm. In a most pathetic way, Sarita Kenedy East tells the author to beseech foundation directors to undo that act of willfulness and to distribute the resources she controlled in the broadest manner to the most selfless entity present on the face of the earth. She counsels that all persons who exercise control of foundation resources risk joining her in the gravest of eternal suffering.

In the dialogue with the author, Sarita Kenedy East has much else to say about the culpability of the Catholic Church for its failure to provide her with Godly spiritual counsel during her lifetime, how she began to learn before her death in 1961 authentic spiritual truths from the Trappist monk, Brother Leo Gregory, who also suffered calumny from Catholic authorities for his fidelity to her, why the United Nations is the only appropriate recipient of the Kenedy Foundation resources, and what she is now learning in the company of the angels about the meaning of life on earth. She urges the author and all others to meditate specifically on the virtue of simplicity epitomized in the lives of the Blessed Virgin Mary and her divine son, Jesus Christ.

In closing, of course, those who have made no progress whatsoever in understanding the virtue of simplicity will consider the author's dialogue with the deceased Sarita Kenedy East preposterous and absurd. This is unfortunate. They will learn later of their mistake. The wise will heed her message. Each day the Kenedy Foundation persists in controlling, with imperfect human understanding, wealth which must be returned to all of God's creation and His children, a grave, grave sin is recommitted.

Tony Hearn
August 10, 1999

Note Added on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2004

For anyone who may be interested, I have been in communication with Brother Leo Gregory who is now back in residence at the Trappist Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts.

Meanwhile, there is a new challenge against the assets of the John G. and Maria Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation from a man who has claimed in court that he is the illegitimate grandson of John G. Kenedy Jr.

The fight for the Kenedy money continues! John G. Kenedy Jr.'s remains, resting next to those of Sarita Kenedy East in the family plot where I experienced the vision of "Saint Sarita," is to be exhumed for a DNA specimen in the coming week by order of a court.

How human beings (and their attorneys) scramble after earthly wealth when the true and everlasting riches of heaven are ours to be had with so little effort.

Note Added on Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Dr. Ray Fernandez, the Nueces County (Corpus Christi, Texas) medical examiner who claims he is the illegitimate grandson of the millionaire South Texas rancher, continues to seek the exhumation of the remains of John G. Kenedy Jr. for DNA testing. The Supreme Court of Texas issued a stay late last week, blocking opening of the Kenedy grave which had been scheduled for Saturday, July 10th. Attorney Jorge Rangel of Corpus Christi, representing the John G. and Maria Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation, petitioned the high court to block the exhumation. The court has reserved a final determination. Dr. Fernandez is seeking membership on the Kenedy Foundation Board of Directors as a living survivor of John G. Kenedy Jr. and a relative of Sarita Kenedy East.

Dr. Ray Fernandez and his wife, Marie, at a breakfast meeting in San Antonio during which the author conducted an interview.

Note Added on Tuesday, March 10, 2005

The battle continues for Sarita's legacy. The Supreme Court of Texas is expected to render a judgment concerning exhumation of the Kenedy bones in the Fall of 2005.

Note Added on Sunday, May 24, 2008

The legal quest by an aging Corpus Christi woman to prove she is the unacknowledged daughter of John G. Kenedy, heir to a fabulous South Texas fortune, was revived this week by a ruling of the 13th Court of Appeals.

“My understanding is we can now pursue the case on behalf of my mom, for her honor and her memory,” said Dr. Ray Fernandez, son of Ann Fernandez, 82, who is in a nursing home.

The above from a court story by John MacCormack published in the San Antonio Express-News.

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